National Scholastic Medal recipients are announced
Congratulations to the H2H Region’s 2016 national medal recipients!
- Hannah Ahn, 8th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Lost and Found (Personal Essay/Memoir)
- Grant Albright, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Purges and Prayers (Poetry)
- Daniel Bring, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Resurrection of Sennacherib (Short Story)
- Caroline Challe, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Food for Soul (Poetry)
- Amanda Cronin, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Finding the Current (Short Story)
- Jo de Waal, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Oma Chronicles: Tenthousandthings, Paper Scissors, Measure of Time (Poetry)
- Sydney DiStefano, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Part of the blueness (Poetry)
- Katherine Du, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Mothers (Personal Essay/Memoir)
- Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded American Voices Medal for Jesus Christ College Applicant (Humor)
- Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key | Gold Medal for Pluto (Novel Writing)
- Blythe Filaski, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Waking Past of Elle Perduamour (Short Story)
- Matthew Fisch, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Our Inhumane Justice System (Critical Essay)
- Maeve Flaherty, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Mezcal (Poetry)
- Ashley Gong, 12th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Fifth Series of Red (Poetry)
- Samuel Hodman, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for A Defrosting (Journalism)
- Becky Hoving, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Conversation About Gender Neutral Bathrooms Surges Through Staples (Journalism)
- Colette Juran, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Return to Mars (Critical Essay)
- Maryam Kajoshi, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for unnoticed, electricity, limerence, logicalemotionalimpulsive, unreturned (Poetry)
- Warren Kennedy-Nolle, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Tobacco Untouchables (Poetry)
- Alexander Kosyakov, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Gone Fishing (Short Story)
- Daniel Kuriakose, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for McDonalds: The Series” (Poetry)
- Maya Lew, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal with Distinction for The Complete Collection of Maya Lew (Director's Cut, Box Set) (Writing Portfolio)
- Justin Lu, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Midnight Canoe Ride (Personal Essay/Memoir)
- Kaley Mamo, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Ponte Vecchio (Flash Fiction)
- Megan Meyerson, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The River (Science Fiction/Fantasy)
- Sophie Nadel, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Trich (Flash Fiction)
- Katie O'Shea, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Last Soldier and Out of Reach (Poetry)
- Evan Ortiz, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Piano Man (Personal Essay/Memoir)
- Ellie Prusko, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key for Wonderfully Tragic and Terribly Great (Novel Writing)
- Maddie Smyth, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Raindrops (Poetry)
- Gabrielle Sussman, 8th grade, awarded Gold Key for Not Gold, Just Amber (Novel Writing)
- Athena Traver, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Broken Glass (Poetry)
- A.J. Vitiello, 10th grade, awarded Gold Key | Silver Medal for Field Mouse (Novel Writing)
- Christina Wang, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Lifeblood (Short Story)
- Callie Zola, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for A Wrinkle in Dystopia (Critical Essay)
Congratulations 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Writing Awards recipients!
View the full list of works recognized in the 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Writing Region of the Scholastic Writing Awards below!
A panel of professional novelists, editors, teachers, poets, librarians, journalists, and other literary professionals selected these works from the 1,880 works submitted this year.
The Madeleine L'Engle Senior Writing Portfolio
$1,000 Scholarship
Ashley Gong
Newtown High School
Sandy Hook, CT
Ashley's Senior Writing Portfolio was selected by jurors as the most outstanding in the region. Congratulations!
Special Prizes...
- Emmy Laybourne's Essay Award for $300 is awarded to Michael Waters of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford CT, for For Sale (Personal Essay / Memoir)
- The Marnie Hillsley Poetry Award for $300 is awarded to Raymond Hagan of ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven CT, for Gentleman's Proposal; Play Date; The patients laugh. (Poetry)
- The Rachel Vail Fiction Scholarship for $300 is awarded to Maeve Flaherty of Hopkins School in New Haven CT, for Lisa (Short Story)
- The Cuppa Pulp Writers Space Scholarship for $200 is awarded to Kate Fishman of New Paltz Senior High School in New Paltz NY, for To Submerge (Short Story)
